Pause and appreciate the God of Hell Fire!
By Jaime Wright | September 22, 2007
Give it up for a man before his time who set the way for acts from Alice Cooper to KISS to Marilyn Manson … Arthur Brown (I can’t stop watching this video it’s been like a couple months and I’m starting to dance like him too): Fire.
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Boston Cops F’ing Hate “Terrorist” Circuit Boards
By Jaime Wright | September 22, 2007
Ok, I’ve been slacking on writing about all the important items in the news lately, but I couldn’t not write about this because besides all the hoo haa over OJ Simpson, this is the stupidest f’ing thing in the news.
Why is it that Bostonian’s simply freak out over circuit boards? Whether these boards are flipping people off as a cartoon character (in the case of the Aqua Teen Hunger Force ads) or if it’s on the outside of a t-shirt with stupid blinking lights (as in the most recent case of the MIT student wearing it at an airport) who was arrested at gunpoint! Why? For being someone who has bad taste in art?!
Ok, I get it, this terrorism shit is very serious, but we’re are all fucked if we have entire police forces freaking out over dumbass circuit boards–like not just once, but twice. Seriously.
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an eye toward the weekend…and a Manhattan
By Wiley | September 21, 2007
it’s friday, so what better way to march into the weekend than a homage to the Manhattan?
“The best Manhattans slide easily down the throat. They linger on the palate, dance on the tongue and tickle the tonsils for a good long while. Manhattans, when made by a master of the craft, can produce euphoria in discriminating souls, and they’ve been known to tempt angels to return to physical manifestation, just for one more sip.”
* playing on the iPod: Hüsker Dü “Visionary”
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Big Noise counters Patraeus Political Theater
By Jaime Wright | September 14, 2007
Here’s some interesting counterpoint to much of the political theater coming from the Petraeus testimony. I saw the tail end of this interview on Democracy Now.
It is an interview with Rick Rowley of Big Noise film … Rowley spent time embedded with U.S. military and Iraqi militias while in Iraq and bring back a different point of view than we’re hearing in the deafening echo chamber of D.C. and the media.
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The rich are getting richer!
By Jaime Wright | August 29, 2007
Usually, I don’t really buy into the things that people say. But reading articles such as this one on the California Assoc. Realtor’s (C.A.R.) website titled:
“C.A.R. reports sales decrease 22.7 percent in July, median price of a home in California at $586,030, up 3.2 percent from year ago”
The current market in housing I think really demonstrates the truth behind the statement that the “rich are getting richer while the poor are getting poorer.” If you read the article above you’ll find C.A.R.–which has no “liberal” ax to grind–is reporting that:
“Although the median price posted an increase statewide, there is a disparity between the lower-priced or entry-level markets where prices generally are soft at best and sales have declined sharply, and some higher priced markets that continue to experience price appreciation along with somewhat smaller decreases in sales.”
Yes, it’s true sales have decreased somewhat on the higher end, but prices continue to be strong while the lower or entry markets are at best soft and are actually in steep decline. So for all those who thought they were getting a part of the American dream, it’s now receding like a mirage or disappearing like the end of a rainbow.
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Being Gay Is Okay
By Jaime Wright | August 29, 2007
What is it about social conservatives, being anti-gay, and then being “outed” by some scandalous event. The most recent example is Larry Craig a Republican Senator from Idaho (I -da -ho …) who had received a zero rating from such pro-GLTB groups as the Human Rights Campaign. These scandals in the Republican Party are starting to remind me of another scandal …. Catholic priests anyone?
As with the Catholic sex scandals. There should be an important distinction made between being Gay and being a pedophile or someone who hangs out in bathrooms soliciting sex from undercover cops (what the fuck are cops doing hanging out in bathrooms waiting for sex anyway?? Isn’t there more violent crime out there to battle?). Conflating these differences into one category (i.e., “Gay”) makes being “Gay” something to be hidden or ashamed of. When in fact, being Gay is a normal mode of sexuality. Obviously. Seriously, there are lot of people that are GLBT who live productive lives and who are good people — what’s not normal about that?
If people, esp. social conservatives who are also anti-Gay activists, would accept these distinctions and begin to understand Gay as Ok, I think we could avoid a lot of these scandals. Ok, so what if Craig is Gay? That is something he needs to deal with. Perhaps, if he had been more honest to himself and his wife, he wouldn’t be making up some story about not being guilty, but pleading guilty, then apologizing, yada yada yada. Same old BS we always hear. Is there a video of him crying yet and sobbing on about family, God, and America?
If we aren’t already suspicious, we really should be of anyone who is actively anti-Gay. Perhaps, they are just battling their own self perceptions.
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What is Putin up to?
By Wiley | August 17, 2007
I wrote something recently that, in hindsight, was intended as a quick cultural reference to highlight
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Cheney on Iraq: 1994
By Jaime Wright | August 16, 2007
What a prophetic clip …. what happened to change his mind?
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Using Gay Stereotypes to Damage Giuliani
By Jaime Wright | August 16, 2007
I recently read a blog post about Gays for Giuliani by Scott Olin Schmidt who is active in the Republican Party in southern California. The video posted on youtube is clearly slanderous against gays and Giuliani. Gays in the sense that it stereotypes them as hyper-sexual or promiscuous (as one man declares he’s had no less than 5 domestic partners)–in addition to putting that guy with the sweater around his neck in front of the piano (it’s like a bad ’80s movie). It does this in order to discredit Giuliani as a viable Republican candidate.
If what Schmidt’s post says is true–that this is done by Democrat activist Mike Rogers who has outed some Republicans–then this just adds another layer to today’s sad state of affairs in terms of politics. If true, then this is clearly a counter productive activity.
As a person who supports the active defense of rights of those in the GLTB community, I think steering the Republican party back in the direction of candidates who are anti-gay rights is a dangerous move. Not only for the gay community, but for our nation as well in that it promotes divisive politics.
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Can’t wrap my brain around quantum tunnelling…
By Wiley | August 16, 2007
There’s a small part of me that wishes I’d worked harder at math and science in school. I can’t even use the excuse “not for lack of effort” when it comes to my mathematical shortcomings, because I can trace the particular moment I threw in the metaphorical towel all the way back to second grade.
Being able to travel faster than the speed of light would lead to a wide variety of bizarre consequences.
For instance, an astronaut moving faster than it would theoretically arrive at a destination before leaving.
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